Unable to do full text searches on PDFs

[jclacherty]

Hi,

I've just installed Alfresco Labs 3b for testing and have uploaded a PDF file to a document library.  Does share have full text search capabilities and should it extend to PDFs?  When I search for something that is in the PDF I don't get any results.

Justin.

[jclacherty]

I created another PDF by printing to PDF from within Word (using Acrobat) and this didn't work either.  However, I uploaded a datasheet in PDF format and it worked fine so I'm guessing it has something to do with PDFs created by Acrobat 9.  The PDF I created in Word was supposed to be in Acrobat 6 format…

Justin.

[jclacherty]

I've done some more debugging.  It only seems to work with PDF-1.3 documents (Acrobat 4.0), anything above this is not searchable and also does not have a thumbnail created.

Another interesting problem is that the search only works with PDF documents if the document is in the root document folder, this is not the case for straight text files.  So I have a site called Accounts, and in the document library I have a folder called Bills.  If I upload a PDF-1.3 file into the Bills folder then a search on text that is in the PDF returns no results.  If I move it back a directory to the root folder of the document library then the search works fine.  Uploading a text file to the Bills folder and then searching on words that are contained in it return that file in the search.

Can someone else confirm this please?

Justin.

[protenus]

–BUMP–

We have been seeing similar problems, can someone confirm this, and any ideas how to get this working?

[ivo_costa]

Hi all

this problem seams to be related to the reindexing speed, (root vs folder)
at first I thought that I had the same problem, but after a few minutes when I tried to find the file I as unexpectedly successful

please check this out

[amernet]

Hi,

Wonder if anyone has more update on the content transformation improvement for Adobe Acrobat 9?
I have the same problem with PDFs created by Adobe Acrobat 9.

We use Alfresco Labs 3 Final. Test both Adobe Acrobat 8 and 9 documents.
The Acrobat 8 works but Acrobat 9 can't be searched and thumbnail was missing as well.

Any advise is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Charles

[amernet]

Hi,

This issue is still continuing from version 3.0.

We just installed/upgraded the latest 3.2 and still having the same problem with pdf document scanned and created by Abobe Acrobat 9 professional.

I have read all the comments above and wonder if any other user can help us to resolve this issue. Within Adobe 9, I can search all the hidden text.

If I need to save to different PDF type. Can someone share what format standard I should use?

In the Adobe Acrobat 9. such as Optimized PDF, PDF/A, PDF/E, PDF/X

I tried PDF/E but still no luck!

Thanks!

Charles